This week was incredible. My investigator Veronica Zamorano who went to stake conference got baptized and it was awesome. I got to baptize her and the spirit was super strong. Veronica is such an awesome person. She brought her kids to church on Sunday and is ready to do FHE every week and wants to get her kids baptized soon, so we will probably baptize them next transfer (they have to come to church 3 times before they can get baptized). She bore a super powerful testimony in church and I was amazed to see how much she has grown and changed spiritually. I am completely convinced that my abilities as a missionary and teacher have almost nothing to do with it, rather, the spirit worked through me to do help her. That’s how it’s supposed to be :) The carpenter is perfect, I just need to work on being a better tool.
That’s the best news of the week, we spent most of the week centered around the baptism and we should have some more coming up in the next few weeks. Other news, Argentina lost to Germany in the quarterfinals of the world cup soccer. That’s big news here. The country literally stops to watch the team play. (All the businesses shut and the streets are bare, it makes for the most peaceful study time I’ve ever had.) Funny story: up until now my comp and I have been pretending to speak German when we walk in the streets because he has pale chileno skin and I’m white. We just kinda spoke gibberish plus the ten German words I remember from elementary school, and thought nothing of it. This started about 4 weeks ago, and suddenly it just so happened that Argentina came against Chile in the world cup and now all the kids in the street that think we are German shout at us when we walk by. Heheh, funny turn of events.
Also, fun stuff, today for P-day we had the world cup tournament of the missionaries, which had the teams: Chile, Peru, Argentina, The rest of the world, USA-Utah, USA-the rest. That was super fun because we had both the zones from Tucuman come and afterward we had a big barbecue with 50 pounds of meat :D My comp is a super good cook so I became assistant chef and learned how to do a really yummy BBQ with pure coal. It was a blast.
Anyway, all is well down here. Here’s a quote for you to chew on that I found the other day: "Circumstance does not make the man; it shows him who he is."
-- James Allen
The only way to develop strong moral integrity and character that can withstand temptation and problems is lots and lots of practice. Choose the right 100% of the time and things will go just fine.
Love your guts!
-JCS
Veronica and her Fam at the baptism
The two chefs
Fifty pounds of meat!! Beef, it's what's for dinner.
The zone eatin'
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